Donald Trump’s meeting with some of the country’s top business leaders might have done more harm than good as several CEOs left the gathering less than impressed with the former president.
According to Andrew Ross Sorkin, host of CNBC’s Squawk Box, one CEO that was in the room said “Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about” and failed to provide a plan on how he plans to achieve his policy goals.
Other CEOs told Sorkin that Trump was “remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map.”
Trump’s performance startled some business leaders who went into the meeting leaning towards supporting him, but left the gathering less likely to back him for a second term.
“I spoke to a number of CEOs who I would say walked into the meeting being Trump supporter-ish or thinking that they might be leaning that direction,” Sorkin said.
“But it’s interesting to me because these were people who I think might have been actually predisposed and walked out of the room less predisposed to him, actually thinking, as one person said, ‘this may not be any different or better than a Biden thought, if you’re thinking that way. That was very interesting,”‘ Sorkin added.
